Computational Intelligence Support for Smart Queries and Adaptive Data

The UK initiative in "network enabled capability" (NEC) can be loosely summarised as "right information, right place, right time - and not too much". It is closely related to the US concept of "network-centric operations". A core requirement for NEC is "active intelligence" where information streams from multiple sources can be dynamically blended and fused into the relevant form for a decision maker. We have identified "smart queries" and "adaptive data" (SQuAD) as the key components of active intelligence, and these form the basis of a current research programme. In this paper we outline three existing research streams that can contribute to the SQuAD project by using soft computing and computational intelligence to merge semi-structured data and taxonomic categories